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Doctor Who S1 • Episode 8

Father’s Day

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Doctor Who (2005-2022)
Ninth Doctor

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First aired Saturday, May 14, 2005
Production Code 1.8
Written by Paul Cornell
Directed by Joe Ahearne
Runtime 45 minutes
Time Travel Past
Tropes: (Potential Spoilers!) Consequences Time Travel Pivotal Visiting Family Fixed point in time Lost the TARDIS Wedding
Story Arc: (Potential Spoilers!) Bad Wolf
Locations Earth England London
UK Viewers 8.06 million
Appreciation Index 83
Synopsis

Pete Alan Tyler, the father of Rose and husband of Jackie, died on 7 November 1987, the day of Stuart Hoskins and Sarah Clark's wedding. Rose was just a baby at the time, Jackie told the young Rose that nobody was there for Pete when he died and that the hit-and-run driver was never found...

Now grown up, Rose asks the Ninth Doctor to take her to see him alive, but on a whim, ends up changing his fate, not realising the consequences of such a paradox. After all, the Doctor has saved so many lives...what could the real consequences be over a man alive in the world who wasn't alive before?

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